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points by camcil 2 days ago | 0 comments

MCP honestly seems like something thrown in there to keep devs relevant.

Just like us to take something and limit it back to being useless until we implement the feature (tools).

The real "race to market" winners will just throw the credentials into the SQL connector and let 'er rip like a real man.

[–] huntertwo 2 days ago

I agree - MCP just standardizes APIs to make it easier for LLM clients to consume them. Imagine if we had to use standard APIs - it would be more difficult to enable any single one. That’s why the labs instituted MCP.

[–] otabdeveloper4 2 days ago

> MCP just standardizes APIs

No it doesn't. It adds yet another Nth "API standardization" spec.

[–] Culonavirus 2 days ago

> The real "race to market" winners will just throw the credentials into the SQL connector and let 'er rip like a real man.

That's what we started doing... and never looked back. Now we're thinking of exposing parts of the database in readonly mode to in-house staff (non-developers) so they can vibe code whatever the hell kind of tools they want...

[–] camcil 2 days ago

That will likely never happen at my current org. Bureaucracy, and all. Ah, well.